OjO Latino is a series by Néstor Sánchez Cordero. This week features the Fourth of July festivities from Capitol Hill. Néstor says, “Images are around, the secret is to catch them at the right moment and with the right light…”
Two more after the jump. (more…)
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Featured Property: 605 Browns Ct SE
Original List Price: $547,500.
List Price at Contract: $519,000.
List Date: 11/07/2008
Days on Market: 205
Settled Sales Price: $499,000.
Settlement Date: 06/26/2009
Seller Subsidy: $0
Bank Owned?: No.
Type Of Financing: FHA
Listing History: Last changed hands in 1998. More info below.
Original GDoN Post is: Here.
Recent Listing is: Here. To see pics, click the arrows on the main picture.
I’ve always liked this little alley court tucked away within a short distance of Eastern Market. At the original list price of $547,500. comments on the original Good Deal or Not (GDoN) post questioned the value of this tiny home. After a nearly ten percent reduction in the price, the final purchase price reflects $507. paid per square foot. This is the highest sale price for a home on Browns Court to date. (630 Browns Court sold in April 2009 for $460,000.)
Additional GDoN discussion turned to the age of the properties on this block. Public records indicate that the subject property was built in 1908 and was extensively remodeled in 1998. The last ownership transfer of this property happened at that time, for $143,000. Phyllis Jane Young with Coldwell Banker was the listing agent back in 1998 and again in 2008-2009.
A little bit of poking around public records indicates quite a bit of new-ish construction activity in this corner of The Hill. While 636 Browns Court is a carriage house built in 1903, neighbor 628 Browns Ct was constructed in 1992, 630 preceded it in 1991, and 632 and 632 ½ came about in 1985.
photo by Mark Borden
With Eastern Market having its grand reopening this weekend, the next big thing for 7th and Pennsylvania SE is the redevelopment of the Hine Jr. High site. This is going to change the face of Eastern Market and Capitol Hill as we know it, and go a long way to the unification of Eastern Market and Barracks Row. DCPS closed Hine and the city will be leasing the property to the developer in a 99-year agreement.
The crop of proposals for the site was recently whittled to four, and the four developers have all been doing their best to inform and woo the neighbors.
I’m not an urban planning expert. I took one urban planning class in undergrad, and though I think I got a B, that was 15 years ago, and I don’t understand a lot of the terms that get thrown around in these discussions. (Particularly the really intense ones over at Greater Greater Washington – I love those guys, but I don’t know what the hell they’re talking about half the time!) So, with that caveat, here are my very brief overviews (with some help from GGW, EMCCA, the CityPaper, The Hill is Home, and CHAMPS) of the 4 plans.
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If any of you wandered past Eastern Market over the weekend, you saw that the temporary indoor market hall was closed for business. This is actually fantastic news because last week the temporary market closed down to transition back to the renovated permanent market! The vendors are using this time to move back into their old (improved) stalls, and to do some
I love this mini Sun Trust Bank building off North Captiol near Union Station:
And below is one of my favorite blocks of row houses in the city. From the 500 block of L Street, NW rounding out my Mt. Vernon Triangle tour:
Art & Soul is located at 415 New Jersey Ave, NW. The Web site says:
“Chef Art is the soul of Art and Soul.
Johnny’s Half Shell is located at 400 North Capitol Street, NW. Ah, I see from the Web site that this is an Ann Cashion spot of Cashion’s Eat Place in Adams Morgan (and of course she’s also involved in the H St. Country Club among other spots.) Back to Johnny’s, as I love seafood, how good is it? You can see their menu here. Best seafood in town?
I thought this was an interesting combination of an old building contrasted with a more modern addition and new building. The buildings to the left is the Acacia Life Insurance Building house the law firm of Jones Day, located on the 300 block of New Jersey Avenue, NW (roughly). I think the glass structure in the middle looks fantastic. The new building to the right, I believe, is available for lease. So what do you think of the look?
Incidentally I had never visited the Japanese American WWII memorial:
More photos of the memorial after the jump. (more…)
I totally forgot about this wild building. It’s located off New Jersey Ave, NW near Georgetown University Law Center. I feel like this is the National Association of Realtors building? Something like that, right? Anyway, it’s a really unusual looking building but I give it a thumbs up. I also like the view with the Capitol Building in the background to the left. What do you think – thumbs up or down?
This cool shot is from owash titled, “To Longworth”.
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